"He's probably making bank off it." That's part of the problem. Every time an actor gets a check for being in a medical commercial it raises the price of healthcare so others can't afford it.

But worse is the career choice on Norm's part. I believed he had a limp as Porgy. I believe him as a politician on Scandal. He's a great actor. But in that commercial, he looks happy like he's packin! It's his worst performance ever!

As Joan Rivers says, "a working actor is a happy actor-you never turn down a job if you don't have one. You want me to wear a diaper? Great sign me up!"

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

He's ACTING and being paid more for that commercial than he probably made doing Porgy.

"TheatreDiva90016 - another good reason to frequent these boards less."<<>>
“I hesitate to give this line of discussion the validation it so desperately craves by perpetuating it, but the light from logic is getting further and further away with your every successive post.” <<>>
-whatever2

The man just finished a successful a run in Porgy and Bess....has a featured role on one of TV's HOTTEST shows: Scandal...and is making bank every time that commercial runs on TV. He don't need a new agent.

After a Broadway performance an actor asks the audience to make a donation to BCEFA so they can continue their amazing efforts to help people pay for their medical expenses.

Then a pharmaceutical company spending 40% of their budget on advertising pays actors tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary commercials. (Is there ANYONE out there who needs a TV ad to know there are little blue pills available if they need them?)

These expenses then raise the cost of the drugs which gets spread across all the company's products which keeps health care costs rising as a rate faster than most people can afford,

Then following the next performance, actors have to continue to ask people to donate more money to pay for more health care costs.

Oh lord. Norm Lewis is an actor, who needs to make a living. That comes before taking a weird moral stance on unaffordable healthcare. And if unaffordable healthcare is a hot-button issue for you, I promise there are many more relevant things to rant about besides Norm Lewis in an ED commercial.

Norm doesn't need a new agent, the agent is getting Norm work. It's Norm's job to decide whether he wants to accept the work or not.

I remember a few years ago, Carol Burnett and Whoopi Goldberg both did Entemann's Baked Goods commercials. At the time I wondered why either woman would do that. I wouldn't think they needed the money, it wasn't a career enhancer and it's hard to believe that either one of them was that crazy about pre-packaged cookies and donuts. I came to the conclusion that they had to do some type of community service or the CEO of Entemann's had pictures of them in compromising situations.

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

Good grief, even Laurence Olivier hawked cameras. The list of actors who did commercials early in their careers is too long to contemplate. For all we know Norm Lewis has donated his earnings to charity. Judge not, and all that, y'know.